Boris Berman (chekist)

Boris Davidovich Berman (Russian: Борис Давыдович Берман; 15 May 1901 – 22 February 1939) was a leading member of the NKVD, who played a prominent role in the Great Purge before he was himself arrested and shot.

According to Bukharin's widow, Anna Larina: He came to my search as if to a banquet, wearing a stylish black suit, white shirt, and a fine ring on his finger, and sporting an elongated little fingernail.

Simultaneously, Berman supervised the Polish Operation of the NKVD in Belarus, in which over seventeen thousand people were sentenced to death, most of them Poles.

[6] Still, he was arrested on September 24, 1938, in the same week that Lavrentiy Beria officially took control of the NKVD, and accused of being a spy in the pay of Polish intelligence.

in 1956 the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR found no grounds to review the case of Berman for posthumous rehabilitation.

On March 27, 2014, by a ruling of the Judicial Collegium for Military Personnel of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, he was found not subject to rehabilitation.

[8] One of her brothers, Boris Bak (1897-1938), was head of the Middle Volga NKVD during the period when the peasants were resisting being forced onto collective farms.